ZIP 04453 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

ZIP code 04453 in Penobscot County, Maine carries a composite property-distress score of 25/100 — a low reading on DLRadar's deterministic public-record index. Structural risk reads 56/100 against active distress of 5/100. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (79/100). What sets it apart are the readings on structural risk (56/100), construction/permit lag (43/100), institutional ownership (40/100). mortgage stress (17/100) stay muted.

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 2.4% over the trailing year, 1.3% off the recent peak, at 56/100 phase confidence. At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

Vacancy runs 17.2%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. There are about 406 housing units across 04453. 839 residents call 04453 home, typically aged 44. Rent burden reaches 29% of tenant households. Households earn a median $43,839 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. Roughly 20.0% live below the poverty line, elevated and often tied to deferred-maintenance inventory. A median home runs $134,800 here, or 2.9 times local income. About 7% have a four-year degree. The tenure split is 77% owner-occupied to 23% rented. On demographic stress specifically, 04453 scores 31/100.

Taken together, 04453 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.